Almost Digital

[Stu W]

I haven't taken the digital plunge yet. I have gone from SLR's to rangefinders, and I quite like the experience. It's like a low pressure type of photography-something I need with my high pressure job. Anyway, one of my co-workers brought in his old Nikon to show me his new motor drive-not a winder but a motordrive. He made me take 36 pics of the same thing just for test purposes, and to show me how fast it was. Well, it's about as fast as a vulcan cannon but not very relaxing. I'm sure however that in a crowd if I just let loose with this thing I would get something nice out of 36 exposures-but is this art? Stu

 

[cbass]

It's art if someone thinks it's art. 😉

After all, Warhol used multiple images in many of his famous works.

 

[photogdave]

Traditionally the motor drive was utilized to capture fast action in sports or fashion-type situations. Any one of those frames could be art...
I used to shoot sports for newspapers and learned to shoot without a motor drive (couldn't afford one), and consequently trained myself to anticipate "the moment" which has helped improve all aspects of my photography!

 

[Socke]

Depends on the situation.
Using explosives for fishing may not be expertly but it puts food on the table 🙂

 

[zuikologist]

Depends on the situation.
Using explosives for fishing may not be expertly but it puts food on the table 🙂

Very philosophical - I like it!

 

[Kin Lau]

Using a motor-drive, especially one on a monster like the Nikon F series, is like using a power-tool. It can be fun sometimes in a "Tim the Tool Man" Allen kind of way.

 

[VinceC]

A number of news photographers these days use motor drives and fat digital-memory cards to machine-gun their way through an event. The decisive moment is fine for finicky artiste types, but not so cool if you miss the moment and your editor is demanding to see THE SHOT. My old photo books from the 1950s are careful to draw a sharp distinction between "photojournalism" and "news photography." The photojournalilst covers and interprets a subject with freedom and expression, like a feature writer; the news photographer must get the single shot, period.

 

[ch1]

I haven't taken the digital plunge yet. I have gone from SLR's to rangefinders, and I quite like the experience. It's like a low pressure type of photography-something I need with my high pressure job. Anyway, one of my co-workers brought in his old Nikon to show me his new motor drive-not a winder but a motordrive. He made me take 36 pics of the same thing just for test purposes, and to show me how fast it was. Well, it's about as fast as a vulcan cannon but not very relaxing. I'm sure however that in a crowd if I just let loose with this thing I would get something nice out of 36 exposures-but is this art? Stu

I was manual SLR user for decades. Finally I got a good used F-5 about a year ago. Previous owner had left it set on "contiuous, multi-frame" mode.

First time I tried it out I immediately shot a half dozen pictures of my feet before I could get my finger off the shutter button! 😱

Like anything else, there is a learning curve. 😉